Post #188,588
12/30/04 3:42:45 PM
12/30/04 3:48:29 PM
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Yes, I do.
I just did a new backup solution.
1.4TB of scratch (or main storage for backups) and hot swap 300GB SATA Drives for Media.
I use 4 - 300GB drives for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
I have 10 additional (bought some more) 300GB Drives and H/S Trays for the cage I bought.
Friday1, Friday2, Friday3, Month1, Month2, Month3, Month4, Month5, Month6
So, it gives me offsite storage protection for 6 months.
Nice setup. Looks like it'll be about 20-30 times faster for backups. In the long run, cheaper too.
And, to be honest, I have never had GREAT (nor good) luck with tape systems under $100K.
I like the that Drive technology that is driving storage capacity to insane levels, is the best technology to use for backup media as well. Dunnah have to be the fastest drives, just pretty fast and we also get Random Access rather than serial/streaming access.
This will be the way backup systems will go.
Also, Samba, NFS and Netatalk work great for just about any choice of OS. Which means you can backup to this backup mechanism easily from different kinds of hosts. I'd use subversion (svn) for source storage, then rsync the repository to your backup machine.
I'll tell you this, I am in the process of developing my policy for site backup soon, rather than one-off for each machine. It pays to have a "site" backup policy. That way, the people who look for blame can place it directly on the people that "didn't follow policy" keeping you out of the foray and being a middleman.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyNo matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
Edited by folkert
Dec. 30, 2004, 03:48:29 PM EST
Yes, I do.
I just did a new backup solution.
1.4TB of scratch (or main storage for backups) and hot swap 300GB SATA Drives for Media.
I use 4 - 300GB drives for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
I have 10 additional (bought some more) 300GB Drives and H/S Trays for the cage I bought.
Friday1, Friday2, Friday3, Month1, Month2, Month3, Month4, Month5, Month6
So, it gives me offsite storage protection for 6 months.
Nice setup. Looks like it'll be about 20-30 times faster for backups. In the long run, cheaper too.
And, to be honest, I have never had GREAT (nor good) luck with tape systems under $100K.
I like the that Drive technology that is driving storage capacity to insane levels, is the best technology to use for backup media as well. Dunnah have to be the fastest drives, just pretty fast and we also get Random Access rather than serial/streaming access.
This will be the way backup systems will go.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyNo matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
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